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[BLOCK] Custom RSS reader with caching

Started by wille, December 07, 2011, 11:28:20 AM

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wille

Here's a simple RSS reader using SimpleXML. Features caching. In this example code I decided to parse a feed one user here had problems parsing with the built-in RSS reader.

*NOTE: You must create a folder cache/rss and make it writable.

Using this code requires a bit of php knowledge. If you want to read a feed that uses different kind of formatting, you have to manipulate the code a bit. I.e. change $xml->entry to $xml->item, $item->summary to $item->description etc.

Modify this code as you want. Comes with no warranty, whatsoever :-)

<?php//Configuration$url="http://www.swtor.com/feed/news/all";$items="2";// Load the cache file if it exists$hashfromURL = hash("md5",$url);$cachefile = "cache/rss/".$hashfromURL.".html";$cachetime = 60*60; // Cache refresh time in seconds. Default is one hour.if(file_exists($cachefile) && (time() - filemtime($cachefile) < $cachetime )) {	include($cachefile);	}else {// Try to load the RSS. If it's not possible, load the cached version instead.	$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);	if ((!$xml) && file_exists($cachefile)) include($cachefile);	if ((!$xml) && !(file_exists($cachefile))) echo 'Cannot load feed.';	if ($xml){		ob_start();		$i=0;		foreach ($xml->entry as $item){			// If you're using unicode forum, remove the utf8_decode() function			// Look into the XML file you're reading and check which tags are used for which info.			echo ' <a href="'.htmlspecialchars($item->id).'">'.			utf8_decode($item->title).'</a><br />'.			utf8_decode($item->summary).'<br />Published: '.			substr($item->updated,0,10).'<br />';				$i++;			if ($i==$items) break;		}		// Write the contents into the cache file		$fp = fopen($cachefile, 'w');		fwrite($fp, ob_get_contents());		fclose($fp);		ob_end_flush();         }}// To parse namespace tags, eg. <dc:date></dc:date>:// 	$dc = $item->children($namespaces['dc']);//	$date = $dc->date;// To parse tags like <gd:when startTime='2011-03-09'/> such as in google calender events feed use (after fetching // 	$gd = $item->children($namespaces['gd']);// 	$gd->when->attributes()->startTime?>

Zirc

This works great Willie, thanks.  One question... how would I format the date so that it is M-D-Y instead of Y-M-D?

wille

Add line
$newdate = date("m-d-Y", strtotime($item->updated));
And then "Published: '.substr($newdate,0,10).'<br />';"

Zirc

The date is in the correct format now but all the items are showing 12-31-1969

Zirc

I'm also getting a couple errors with this block now:

http://www._____.com/index.php?action=admin;area=portalblocks;sa=edit;block_id=55;b47eb0bef=b8803de73649894fd50a88995a9bbfe4
8: Trying to get property of non-object
File: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/forums/Sources/PortalBlocks.php(3562) : eval()'d code
Line: 5

http://www._____.com/index.php?action=admin;area=portalblocks;sa=edit;block_id=55;b47eb0bef=b8803de73649894fd50a88995a9bbfe4
8: Undefined variable: item
File: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/forums/Sources/PortalBlocks.php(3562) : eval()'d code
Line: 5

wille

Try this:
<?php//Configuration$url="http://www.swtor.com/feed/news/all";$items="2";// Load the cache file if it exists$hashfromURL = hash("md5",$url);$cachefile = "cache/rss/".$hashfromURL.".html";$cachetime = 60*60; // Cache refresh time in seconds. Default is one hour.if(file_exists($cachefile) && (time() - filemtime($cachefile) < $cachetime )) {	include($cachefile);	}else {// Try to load the RSS. If it's not possible, load the cached version instead.	$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);	if ((!$xml) && file_exists($cachefile)) include($cachefile);	if ((!$xml) && !(file_exists($cachefile))) echo 'Cannot load feed.';	if ($xml){		ob_start();		$i=0;		foreach ($xml->entry as $item){			// If you're using unicode forum, remove the utf8_decode() function			// Look into the XML file you're reading and check which tags are used for which info.			$newdate = date("m-d-Y", strtotime($item->updated));			echo ' <a href="'.htmlspecialchars($item->id).'">'.			utf8_decode($item->title).'</a><br />'.			utf8_decode($item->summary).'<br />Published: '.			substr($newdate,0,10).'<br />';				$i++;			if ($i==$items) break;		}		// Write the contents into the cache file		$fp = fopen($cachefile, 'w');		fwrite($fp, ob_get_contents());		fclose($fp);		ob_end_flush();         }}// To parse namespace tags, eg. <dc:date></dc:date>:// 	$dc = $item->children($namespaces['dc']);//	$date = $dc->date;// To parse tags like <gd:when startTime='2011-03-09'/> such as in google calender events feed use (after fetching // 	$gd = $item->children($namespaces['gd']);// 	$gd->when->attributes()->startTime?>


You have to wait for the cache to refresh or set the refresh interval to zero.

As I said, it's gonna take a little php knowledge to use this script. :-)

Zirc

I have some PHP knowledge but not a lot.  Since it was throwing errors I figured I'd post here just incase anybody else needed to use the code.

Thanks, the new code works perfectly now.

:applause:

ccbtimewiz

You might be interested in integrating with the cache system of SMF 2.0.

You can use functions such as cache_put_data and cache_get_data, which will automatically (de)serialize the cache data.

You can use the Function DB on SM.org for more information on how to use the functions if you're unaware.